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perfidy
noun as in treachery
Strong matches
noun as in faithlessness
Example Sentences
Nixon’s intent was as sinister as any perfidy he later committed in the Watergate scandal, and if Trump asked Netanyahu to reject peace for now in Gaza, he too has asserted personal power above all else, to an extent that’s appalling even by his standards.
If Trump’s perfidy on the economy is galling, his lies about immigration are criminal.
Trump has refused in recent interviews to commit to accepting the results in November; since the sore loser still doesn’t concede his 2020 defeat, his antidemocratic perfidy about 2024 doesn’t surprise.
To deflect from their own perfidy, and to offset the optics of nonstop chaos, dysfunction and extremism under Johnson’s helm, House Republicans have pivoted entirely from fixing the border to a full frontal assault on Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.
At that hearing, Blumenfeld said that he felt a “special obligation, which has limits, to cleaning up, if that is what is appropriate and necessary, the perfidy within the Bar if, indeed, there is such perfidy.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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